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Africa is home to approximately two-thirds of the global population living with HIV and—despite a decline in HIV infection rates and AIDS mortality—the epidemic continues to take a toll across the continent. At the same time, Africa is home to 15 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence rates...

Roughly 15,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed annually among American children. Eighty percent of these children ultimately are cured, which is a remarkable medical success story. But in sub-Saharan Africa, where about 100,000 new cases of pediatric cancer occur annually and 90 percent of those...

Worldwide, nearly 800 women die every day due to mostly preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. More than half of these deaths occur in fragile states torn by armed conflict and generalized violence. For women living in sub-Saharan Africa, the adult lifetime risk of maternal...

This article follows the story of a young girl named “Joyce” and her story with HIV. Find it at the this link: https://www.icrw.org/growing-up-with-hiv-in-sub-saharan-africa-one-girls-story/

This economic forum piece shares both the strides and areas of improvement for humanitarian action in Africa. The author was the president of the International Rescue Committee. Background: Africa is changing dramatically – and so are outsiders’ attitudes toward it, with the US finally seeming...